I thought it was a joke when EFF.org sent this story but apparently it’s true.
A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.
The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. …
In many ways film festivals are a way for artists, be they actors or directors, to have films shown that allow them to break from their typecasting. The Austin Film Festival is no different and Winter Passing is part of that. Adam Rapp (brother of Anthony ‘Tony’ Rapp who makes a guest appearance) directs Zooey Deschanel, Ed Harris, Will Ferrell, and Amelia Warner in this somber but eventually sentimental film. Where a standard movie, say one of my favorites Jerry Maguire, might start at 5 on the happy scale and end at 10, this starts at 2 and ends at 8. It’s hard to say more without spoiling key scenes, but it can be very hard at times. This story about the daughter of famous authors who left home at 18 and didn’t return for her mother’s funeral three years later is still worth seeing, though.
Fans may feel differently but ATHF‘s creator Jay Edwards movie Stomp! Shout! Scream! is like most of the genre it tries to imitate. A girl band in the ’60s doing a self-managed tour through the Southeast has car problems in a town north of Florida at the same time a swamp creature washes up on shore and kills several beach-goers. There are a few ATHF-ish scenes that garner a chuckle, but the screenplay adheres too much to it’s beach party, swamp monster genre and becomes pedestrian.
With all due respect to everyone’s religious beliefs,
Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form
And I’m not trying to make the hard atheist evolution argument here. How hard is it to believe in god as a concious motivating force inside the infinitely complex, beautiful, and internally logical natural universe we live in?
Isn’t the idea that god is the creator of a universe in which a process as simple as evolution can produce something as complex as humanity far more inspiring than the idea that god likes to sit around in his garden making little people out of play-doh?
I’m going to posit that if most Americans would in fact tell a CBS pollster that they reject the most basic principle of biology, it’s most likely not because they have evaluated science and found that it doesn’t sufficiently explain their world. Rather, certain powers that be have done very well for themselves fomenting a culture war in which science is deemed incompatible with religion and being religious is equivalent to being an American.
Although I’m sure there’s still a frighteningly large percentage who reject evolution out of fear that the rattlesnakes will bite them on Sunday if they don’t.
All due respect and all.
Does Rick Detorie have a crystal ball next to his drawing table? He got the score wrong, but there are many a young lad having difficulty crawling out of bed today after last night’s 14 innings.
(I didn’t personally stay up until 1am watching the game, but I thought about it and it’s the thought that counts…right?)